Select Sermons of S. Leo the Great on the Incarnation: With His 28th Epistle, Called the Tome (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Leo

9780265420102: Select Sermons of S. Leo the Great on the Incarnation: With His 28th Epistle, Called the Tome (Classic Reprint)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0265420105 ISBN 13: 9780265420102

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

Excerpt from Select Sermons of S. Leo the Great on the Incarnation: With His 28th Epistle, Called the Tome

For a general survey of the career of Pope Leo the Great, and for an estimate of his character and of his place in ecclesiastical history, the reader may be re ferred to the article on Leo I. In the Dictionary Of Christian Biography, by the Rev. C. Gore, Principal of Pusey House, Oxford with which may be compared the volume entitled Leo the Great, contributed by the same author to the s.p C. K. Series of The Fathers for English Readers.

Something, however, may here be said, by way of introduction to the consideration of S. Leo's posi tion as a preacher and as a controversial theoloe gian, in reference to that commanding personality which Cardinal Newman has aptly characterised by the word majestic. Leo is the first of four Popes who, even if their lot had been cast in secular life, would have made their mark as great men the three others, it need not be said, being the first and seventh Gregories and the third Innocent. It is significant that when, on the vacancy of the Roman see in 440.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.